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Cheney to attend Karzai's inauguration
WASHINGTON, Dec 5: US Vice President Dick Cheney will attend the first Afghan presidential inauguration in Kabul on Tuesday, a month before his own re-investiture, the White House has announced. ... 
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Iraqi president for elections on Jan 30
WASHINGTON, Dec 5: Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar reaffirmed his support on Sunday for holding elections on Jan 30 in Iraq, saying any delay would be a victory for violent foes and trigger resentment. ...
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Calls to postpone Iraqi polls surge
BAGHDAD, Dec 5: More than 90 deaths in three days added weight on Sunday to renewed calls from Iraqi politicians seeking to delay planned January 30 elections, arguing that the climate of violence could lead to the results being challenged. ...
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Egypt Israel, swap prisoners
AL QUDS, Dec 5: A major thorn in the side of Israeli-Egyptian relations was removed on Sunday after Cairo freed an Israeli Druze jailed seven years ago for spying as the Jewish state released six Egyptian students. ...
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IAEA has access in Iran, says ElBaradei
VIENNA, Dec 5: UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei weighed into the debate on whether the IAEA has the tools it needs to investigate Iran's nuclear programme when he said his agency had good access to suspicious sites. ...
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Ukraine opposition confident of new vote
KIEV, Dec 5: A key figure in Ukraine's opposition movement said on Sunday there was little the Moscow-backed authorities could do to stop Viktor Yushchenko sweeping to power in a re-run of the ex-Soviet state's rigged election. ...
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Khatami admits he's wishing the days away
TEHRAN, Dec 5: Iran's embattled President Mohammad Khatami, isolated as one of the few reformists left in office, has admitted that he cannot wait until his second and final term in office ends next year. ...
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Beijing finds Sars vaccine effective
BEIJING, Dec 5: China's government announced on Sunday that a vaccine for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) had emerged from the first phase clinical test as both safe and effective, state press reported. ...
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Norway again attempts to salvage Lanka peace
COLOMBO, Dec 5: Norway is sending a top envoy for another attempt to save Sri Lanka's faltering peace process amid fears that Tiger rebels may return to their protracted armed struggle, diplomats said on Sunday. ...
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Negotiators expect breakthrough in Sudan talks
NAIROBI, Dec 5: The two top negotiators in south Sudan's peace process are due to meet on Monday in a push to reach a comprehensive deal aimed at ending Africa's longest civil war ahead of a Dec 31 deadline, aides said. ...
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Europe's trilateral leadership: Getting along with US
PARIS: Snoozing on the Eurostar train from London to Paris the other day, I started to fantasise. Nothing voluptuous. No nudity at all. Just a political image, though beguiling in its quasi-credibility. ...
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Groups probe FBI spying in 'war on terror'
NEW YORK: US civil rights groups have filed multiple freedom of information requests around the country to uncover evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police are spying ...
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World rich asked to do more about poverty
LONDON: Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain's turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations. ...
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Bhopal nightmare: a lesson lost
NEW DELHI: Twenty years after the world's worst industrial disaster at a pesticides plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are in agreement that tragedies of such magnitude teach no lessons ...
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